DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2014

2011

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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